Lucinda & Co. call time on the fun-poking Renua Ireland Facebook account.
No fun.
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Lucinda Creighton this morning (top) and Renua’s welfare ‘vision’
Mwahhaha, etc.
Renua Ireland’s welfare section.
Hardcore.
Earlier: The Party’s Started
Thanks PJ
This morning
Lucinda Creighton (top) at the press launch of her new party, called Renua Ireland with third pic from left: John Leahy, Mailo Power, Eddie Hobbs Ronan McMahon and Jonathan Irwin. More declared candidates here
So…what are the party’s views on abortion?
Our party has an open position on Abortion. In fact, we will be the only political party in Ireland and across Europe that has an open party position on Abortion. The reason for this is very simple, we do not believe party politics in Ireland has a place for issues of conscience.
Irish Water?
We are in favour of investment in our water infrastructure. It has been allowed to decay for generations. Access to safe, clean water is a basic necessity of life. We fundamentally disagree with how water charges have been introduced and will continue to do so until Irish Water has been radically reformed, and public waste eliminated.
Sinn Féin?
We believe in open politics. That means being open and transparent in every way. Sinn Féin fails to meet any standard of openness and transparency and on these fundamental grounds, we will not consider under any circumstance entering into a coalition agreement of any form.
Update:
Gulp.
Mark Malone writes:
Knew I’d seen the name before…
(Thanks Annie West)
Yikes.
Melanie O’Connor writes:
This week on The Saturday Night Show Lucinda Creighton TD (above) will join Brendan [O’Connor] to talk about the hopes for her new party. Plus journalist and broadcaster Derek Davis will be in studio to talk about his dramatic weight loss and why he decided to go under the knife to lose weight.
*Reboots telly*
The Saturday Night Show, RTÉ One, 9.40pm
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
From left: Eddie Hobbs, Lucinda Creighton and John Leahy
I’m all in favour of the members of a party deciding its policies. But every substantial political party in Ireland has been built around a substantial idea — an idea that can generate real passion.
This [Reboot ireland] is the flimsiest foundation stone any party has ever had under it.
There’s no anger here, no passion, no conviction.
It all reads like it was written by people who fancy themselves as marketers, or merchandisers.
Some political parties want to fight for the poor and the downtrodden. Some want to fight for the free economy. Some have single, critical issues, such as the environment.
This crowd wants to champion human inventiveness.
When the party’s founder, Lucinda Creighton, is asked about the first national campaign in which it will be be involved, the referendum on same-sex marriage, she says that she’ll “probably support it”, but her party won’t take any position on it.
If that’s her idea of leadership, God help us all.
New party needs a reboot already: it’s devoid of passion or purpose (Fergus Finlay, Irish Examiner)
To call Reboot Ireland fuzzy would be an insult to Gerry Adams’s teddy bear…
…Reboot Ireland would like to be the new PDs. It wishes to appeal to the same small business and professional class that is fed up both with government in general and with current politics in particular. But neither side of the PD equation is available to it. The economic formula of cutting taxes and deregulating everything has been disastrously discredited. The social side of the liberal agenda doesn’t work either, because the rebooters have their origins solely in their opposition to even minimal reform of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in the developed world. Hence the fuzziness. The new party is a solution in search of problems – or at least of problems that can be addressed with right-wing policies that don’t appear to be too right-wing.
Reboot And Be Damned (Finatan O’Toole, Irish Times – unavailable online)
Previously: A Terrible Rebooty Is Born
(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)
Less taxes.
Less spending.
privatise everything.
Let’s get this party started already.
[Lucinda]Creighton this afternoon said the party would not be adopting any particular stance on the forthcoming referendum on same-sex marriage, but said she would probably vote in favour.
The party is being founded under four principles including building an economy for entrepreneurs and giving politics back to the people.
Ms Creighton said: “We want to reboot Ireland and we want those who are as passionate about this country as we are to join us on this mission”.
She said that planning for the party had been under way since April 2014.
Over 100 people have been working in a voluntary capacity in areas such as policy, research, IT, communications and party structure.
Ms Creighton will be hosting public meetings throughout the country before the party’s launch to seek contributions to policy formation and to recruit people to get involved.
Creighton to launch new party in spring (RTÉ)
Third pic from left: John Leahy, Lucinda Creighton and Eddie Hobbs launching a “new political force in Ireland” this morning. Less taxes apparently. More as we get it. FIGHT! Reboot Ireland
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Michael O’Flynn
Last night, Cork property developer Michael O’Flynn was interviewed by Paschal Sheehy on the Six One News about losing control of his business to Blackstone, a US company which had purchased Mr O’Flynn’s loans from NAMA.
He said the following:
I was shocked. My intention was absolutely to work collaboratively with Blackstone. It has always been my policy, whoever local authorities, State agencies, the IDA. Whether you borrow a million, ten million or 1.8 billion it’s always about did you borrow responsibly? And I can tell you Paschal we have always borrowed responsibly. Of course we have had situations where there has been an extraordinary collapse in price, in value and no more than a householder who bought a house and is in negative equity. Like, are they responsible for the negative equity that they find themselves in? We have done our business right. We have always tried to do our business in a proper fashion, we will continue to do so.
Watch here.
Meanwhile…
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Michael O’Flynn featured in RTÉ’s Prime Time documentary ‘Carry On Regardless’ in December 2010 about the lifestyle of Irish property developers in NAMA, where he was filmed flying by helicopter with his family to Down Royal from his Cork home to watch his racehorse finish third.
Mr O’Flynn also received a reported €50,000 from Lucinda Creighton in a defamation case in the High Court in 2012, part of which he donated to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin.
Fair play though, in fairness.
In a week that saw [at the UNHRC in Geneva] a principal officer at the Department of Health admit that Ireland’s abortion law discriminated against women who could not afford to travel to Britain, Dublin South East TD Lucinda Creighton [on yesterday’s Marian Finucane programme on RTÉ Radio One], chose another story to discuss…
Marian Finucane: “You picked out as well a story in the Business Post called ‘NAMA Offers Deals To Stop Developers Seeking Bankruptcy Abroad’.”
Lucinda Creighton: “Yeah. I just had a quick look at that. I suppose the thing that strikes me about this is that we have to be very careful when we’re trying to resolve the huge problems that we still obviously have in the property sector. A lot of major players who have been embroiled now for a number of years in trying to resolve debt overhang etc with NAMA that we don’t forget about all of the other business in the country that is literally you know collapsing under the weight of debt and this is something that Morgan Kelly and many others have pointed to as one of the biggest challenges to economic recovery in this country so. I have a fear, I have a concern that if we talk about special circumstances for bankruptcy where people involved in property development and speculation in the past and we ignore the huge existing problem and challenge for a lot of people in small business who can’t afford to go to the UK for bankruptcy purposes for example, being truthful. It’s just not an option for them. You know I think prioritising one cohort of business people above others is actually, firstly is completely unfair and secondly actually risks ignoring probably the biggest challenge we have to economic recovery which is getting the small and medium sized enterprise domestic economy back functioning.”
Listen here (scroll to 48 minute mark)
Previously: No Solution
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
[Lucinda Creighton]
The Reform Alliance.
Where are YOU?
David Quinn writes:
“Basically, Lucinda Creighton needs to declare her intentions soon or make clear that someone else needs to set up a party that will seek to reward work, will allow a free vote on social issues, will make a pact with voters to keep its promises, and will eschew populism as distinct from policies that are both sound and popular. It should also promise that it will belong to no government that includes Sinn Fein. \Fine Gael will make some of these promises as well, but this is where the Reform Alliance brand is a huge advantage; Lucinda and co can turn around and tell voters they have shown they keep their promises and Fine Gael has shown that they break theirs.”
Reform Alliance TD Lucinda Creighton says she has “reservations” about gay marriage. Ms Creighton said she was in favour of holding a referendum on gay marriage, but declined to say if she would support it. “I have reservations,” she said.
Lucinda Creighton has ‘reservations’ about gay marriage (Fionnan Sheahan, Irish Independent)
Previously: Creigh Me A River
Anything Good On BBC News 24?
Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland